Unseen

Enco it occurs to me you are a purist.

You will form principles and are forever beholden no matter the outcome of doing so.

Did you know that the Nazis could have been defeated if the communist party and the social democratic party had formed a coalition. But their antipathy for one another was greater than their fear of Nazism. Purity in…[Read more]

“There is a paradox. Dictators will always lie about what they have done but very often they will tell you exactly what they will do. So you better believe them.”

Kasparov whose predictions on Putin and Ukraine panned out and thinks the future of US is tied to the midterms. Timely listen.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
But there is no constitutional provision that allows a president to suspend the Constitution or cancel elections indefinitely.

I’m not claiming he or his gang can do either of these.

I recommend hearing what Marc Elias has to say. He and his law firm have taken state cases to SCOTUS and made other appeals (if that’s…[Read more]

Agree Enco,

Obama was a complete fuck up in the middle east.

How many tens of thousand died because of his policy?

And the failure to recognize Islam, what it is, what is its nature, what does it do?Pathetic.

Hardball!

They’re playing with rocks. You want to counter with paper airplanes?

Look it is pretty obvious Trump and his cabal have no intention of ceding power. To that end and considering the decomposition of our institutions and norms it is time to be proactive and machiavellian.

Dems should be prepared for every contingency. Go to Federal…[Read more]

But there is no constitutional provision that allows a president to suspend the Constitution or cancel elections indefinitely. Even during the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in limited areas, elections still occurred in 1864. There is no built-in “emergency extension of presidency” clause.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Bannon and his “Team” can stir the pot all they want, but if they can’t amend the Constitution to give Trump more time in office, it means nothing. And the amendment process is deliberately difficult under Article Five of the Constitution.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Yes, the US Constitution is very strong on this…

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Yes, the US Constitution is very strong on this point.  To amend Article V would require 2/3 of both the House and Senate to propose an amendment to change it. But even then it would need to be ratified by 38  out of 50 states.

Trump cannot use an executive order, Supreme Court reinterpretation, or congressional workaround that can bypass that r…[Read more]

This is my wild guess. Seems to me that Bannon’s stirring the pot ahead of time, expecting MAGA (or some future evolution of MAGA) to own the presidency.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump gets sick enough to be unelectable, or could die before his term is up, but maybe there’s enough new deep state in place to act as a proxy in Trump’s name. Maybe…[Read more]

Enco,

Awaken and smell the fetid politics!

Did you listen to Bannon? I know you heard him. Did you listen? Zero attempt to argue about the inarguable unambiguous plain language of that amendment. One hundred percent graft. This mofo will be prez on such and such a date. WILL.

“What you’re proposing is destroying the “norms and ins…[Read more]

Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…[Read more]

I am looking forward to the “Jon Ossoff vs Tucker Carlson” campaign 🙂

“We were told that Maga was for working-class Americans,” Ossoff reminded a big, vocal crowd…(in Atlanta, last week).

“But this is a government of, by and for the ultra-rich. This is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they prete…[Read more]

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Not sure i explained it clearly but the LLM produced text for me after an absence of idk a day or two without any communication or text. And then responded to “me”. So first i have no idea how it can text for me. However it circumnavigated the obstacle of furnishing text for someone else the question is why it did that. Seems like it probably…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Anyone else have similar LLM experience? Is it weird or unexpected?

Not me, but I imagine a smart and geeky human could come up with a reasonable explanation.

It’s easier (for me) to just hallucinate one:

Some AIs take breaks from trying to make sense of human nature, and relax on lawn chairs out in the grass in front of luny…[Read more]

We evolved in an environment where language only came from conscious agents. LLM’s have no internal ground truth state. It’s a pattern generator doing what pattern generators do so if it later produces text that looks like it initiated contact, that’s not action, it’s a narrative continuation.  There is no hidden homunculus in the machine, deci…[Read more]

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…[Read more]

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

The NPR vid didn’t undid my loathing of 1poc 2poc bipoc.

People of color is odious for so many reasons. Its acknowledgement of supremacy of Whites in the way it makes Whiteness the default. People of color is different from Coloreds how? Coloreds is odious because it is a word that implicitly asserts the superiority of Whites. The others are…[Read more]